The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-08-25
VIRGINIA.
Republican Address to the People
In Reply to the One Made
by the Democrats.
Attempt to Show Inconsistency IN
Endorsing Cleveland - In
ternal Revenue Taxes.

PErERsBURG, Va, August 22.-The Vir-
ginia republican state committee has is
sued an address to the republican electors
of the state. The first part of it, which Is
an answer to the address recently put
forth by the democratic managers, says:
''First-As to the endorsement of Presi-
! ,dent Cleveland, and the declaration which
the democratic address makes, that his
administration will receive cordial sup
port from the democratic party of Vir-
ginia. If this statement is sincere, then
the succeeding statement, demanding the
immediate repeal of the internal revenue
system, and the passage of the Blair bill,
must be insincere, for the opposition OF
President Cleveland to one, and the lack
{ of his endorsement of the other OF these
measures is known to all men. His formal
and express approval of Secretary Man
ninp's views and recommendations upon
the subject of taxation and revenue
is conclusive upon this question.
Secretary Manning not only deprecates
the fact that there is no longer any duty
or tax imposed upon tea, or coffee, but
while urging reduction of duties upon
such articles of import as are produced in
our own country, squarely opposes any
reduction of taxes i'm posed upon tobacco,
fruit Installations and whisky. president
Cleveland approves these views and rec
concentrations of Secretary Manning
The democratic managers of the Roanoke
convention endorse this administration,
and yet declare for a repeal of the
internal revenue system. That Presi-
dent Cleveland's administration is a
great and bitter disappointment to many
of the managers of the democratic party
of Virginia is attested by loud and deep
complaints. This pretended support of
him is not only inconsistent with the ad-
y vocacy of the repeal of the internal rev.
enue system and the passage of the Blair
educational BILL but is time serving and
delusive.
Second-As to the internal revenue sys-
tenn the Roanoke platform seeks TO create
the impression among the people that the
democratic party favors the immediate
repeal of that system. 1t may be that the
democratic managers who promulgated
that platform sincerely wish a repeal of
the internal revenue system from motives
. OF self preservation, but when they form
ally declare for a repeal of the system as
part of the democratic faith, it is apparent
they are guilty of an effort TO
deceive the voters of this commonwealth.
That system is held by the democratic
party as hostage to compel the over
throw of the republican policy of protec-
tion to American labor and industries
The authors of the Roanoke platform
know full well that the national democ-
racy opposes that repeal, and that the
few democrats III accord with this declara-
tion of the Roanoke platform are in a
hopeless minority of the democratic party.
The national democratic party upon
which President Cleveland was elected in
1884 promised no repeal of the internal
revenue system but pledged the party to n
continuance of internal revenue taxes and
their application to payment of
pensions. The national democratic
plan of reducing tariff duties embraces
a continuance of these taxes
} Every message of President Cleveland
has ignored any suggestion of repeal of
the internal revenue system, and to the
repeated efforts of the small minority of
democrats who seek its repeal, the demo-
cratic majority of the Forty ninth con-
gress, speaking through its committee on
ways and means; speaking for an over
whelming majority of the democratic
party; speaking in accord with the views
of President Cleveland has given the
rullowing unmistakable responses on be-
half of the democratic party:
On the 10th of July, 1886, in the house
of representatives of the United States,
! Morrison, leading democrat and chair
{ man of the committee on ways
and means, on behalf of
4 the democratic majority of the house,
submitted from his conn ee an adverse
report upon the bill, "to reduce the inter-
nal revenue taxes" etc. That report is
house document of the first session of the
Il Forty ninth congress, No. 3209, and con-
tains the following languages:
M ATTEMPTS to remove tobacco ard other
internal revenues are usually justified by